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Top: Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Teen_Smoking:
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- Addicting Kids to Nicotine - Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
- Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage - Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.
- Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson) - Anti-smoking group offers youth a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources. Founded by Patrick Reynolds.
- Blowing Smoke - Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
- Educational Support Materials on Cancer - Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
- Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores - Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
- FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker - Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
- Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools - Information resource list.
- Health News: Teen Smokers - Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
- Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - From Consumer Reports.
- In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered - PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.
- MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes - Just three cigarette brands account for nearly all teen smoking: Marlboro (Philip Morris), Newport (Lorillard), and Camel (RJ Reynolds). These are among the most heavily advertised and promoted cigarette brands, in particular Marlboro, and Marlboro alone accounts for nearly two thirds of teen smoking.
- Parenting of Adolescents - What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
- Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths - Study presents national estimates of the proportion of yotuhs in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences.
- Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet - Facts on tobacco use among children, nicotine and nicotine addiction in children, tobacco-caused disease, questions to ask candidates for public office, children and tobacco advertising.
- Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People - 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
- Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype - Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
- StepUpNC.com - A place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. Teens can come here to learn more about the perils of smoking, to find out how to quit, to become an activist, or just to see what other teens around North Carolina are doing about tobacco prevention and control.
- Teens Against Smoking in Kansas - Kansas youth speaking out about big tobacco companies. Join with other teens in Kansas and help create one strong voice working to expose Big Tobacco's lies.
- Tobacco and Kids: The Facts - Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking - 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
- tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids - Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
- Young People and Smoking - Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. [PDF]
- The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease - Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
- Youth and Tobacco Facts - Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
- Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion - Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
- Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes - Time magazine article on bidis. (December 16, 2002)
- ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide - Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. (February, 2002)
- Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing - CNN report on a study that found that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think. (September 11, 2000)
- Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage - Tobacco products cause more lung cancer to smokers who start young, recent research finds; scientists think it may relate to the impact of smoking at an age when the lungs are still developing. (April 7, 1999)
- Slugfest in the Smoke Ring - Washington Post article describes the approaches of the four major tobacco companies -- Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and Lorillard -- to get younger smokers, and explains why this is so important to the industry. (March 1, 1998)
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